Word: growl
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Bonamassa’s thick guitar and husky growl anchor the album, and are most welcome when he pounds out a down-home shuffle, “Trouble Waiting.” If his musical voice isn’t distinctive, it is at least passionate. Bonamassa crafts some potent guitar solos throughout, firing out stripped-down licks and reaching aching, soaring heights on “If Heartaches Were Nickels.” Bonamassa was weaned on all forms of the blues, and dutifully pays his respects to the masters who played in an era when the blues actually...
...vocalists can still be effective singers: witness Bob Dylan. Instead of electronically manipulating her voice à la Cher in 1998’s “Believe,” Spears’ producers have her perform an aesthetically repulsive half-talking, half-singing sound. Somewhere between a growl and a croak, her voice is entirely disjointed from her young girl image. More than anything else, her muttering style is the single most dismal artistic failure on the album...
...shut in our face, we spent a few more minutes on the President’s lawn, pondering renegade photo ops and speculating on the true identity of this self-proclaimed grounds-keeper. He took this occasion to yell us off of his property with an indecipherable Eastern European growl...
...Shoot him! Shoot him!” I cry to no avail. The beast, unsatisfied with having eaten my pie, moves on to its next victim with that “no summa for you” grimace and “overdue library book fine” growl...
...traditions of the Tuareg people of the central Sahara. The competition is both a demonstration of skill, and an opportunity for the village of Timia to celebrate the wedding of Adam's sister. A cry goes up and all the camels rise at once. One lets out a low growl. Women ululate and clap...